http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/

Ali

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/

"I might've said D, but I don't think it qualifies as "emerging" since it's over a decade old."

Well, it's just ridiculous, although I often see people trying to say that minus D is "a decade of transition from D1 to D2. Many call D `the dead` :) But I believe that sooner or later D will destroy C++, because it is still in development, though not very fast, but stable and it is good! D will rise to the top of the mountain `Uphill`, despite all the prejudices of the people, knowing nothing about the history of D.
And, by the way, I have never heard of the Crystal :)

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/
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> And, by the way, I have never heard of the Crystal :)

Ruby that compiles?

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:46:48 UTC, Israel wrote:
> Ruby that compiles?

Yet Rust, Nim and Crystal is a very young languages. And alas, life is not eternal to wait five years of a flourishing language :) There are already ready to be used option. This is D.

On 6/9/15 11:02 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/

Also found this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3971qf/this_week_in_d_dconf_2015_report_new_forum_site/


Andrei

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/
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> "I might've said D, but I don't think it qualifies as "emerging" since it's over a decade old."
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> Well, it's just ridiculous, although I often see people trying to say that minus D is "a decade of transition from D1 to D2. Many call D `the dead` :) But I believe that sooner or later D will destroy C++, because it is still in development, though not very fast, but stable and it is good! D will rise to the top of the mountain `Uphill`, despite all the prejudices of the people, knowing nothing about the history of D.
> And, by the way, I have never heard of the Crystal :)

D isn't an emerging language.
And that's a good thing.

Dozens of languages pop up and die before anyone notices them, D has been around for what, 15 years? It's obvious that it's not going away anytime soon.

People also refer to Haskell as if it's some new hip language and it's almost as old as ANSI C.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> D isn't an emerging language.
> And that's a good thing.

Yes, of course. I just read the title of this topic:
"Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?"

And I do not read the name of the theme on reddit :)
"Of the emerging systems languages Rust, D, Go, Nim and Crystal which is the strongest and why?"

So my comment was not the point :)

> People also refer to Haskell as if it's some new hip language and it's almost as old as ANSI C.

Haskell is a creature with a deep inner world. But I don't think I will ever put their hands on this language as well as Perl. They too strange syntax, so they are clearly not the strongest. Of course, Lisp programmers think that the strongest language is a Lisp and only Lisp and nothing more. But this statement is also very ironic.

Why D can not be done, as in the Go:

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    var a, b, c = 1, 2, 3
    fmt.Printf("%d %d %d", a, b, c) // prints 1 2 3
}

http://rextester.com/WICH50477

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> Dozens of languages pop up and die before anyone notices them, D has been around for what, 15 years? It's obvious that it's not going away anytime soon.

Talking about how old D is is a bit of a funny thing. IIRC, Walter started it in 1999, but it was a while before he released it, and it didn't hit 1.0 until 2007, and at that point we got D2, which wasn't even remotely stable until at least 2010. And while D2 builds on D1, it's a very different beast.

It really gets to the point that talking about D's age is almost meaningless. You really need to talk in more detail in order to get any useful information out of the number.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/
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>> ...
>
> People also refer to Haskell as if it's some new hip language and it's almost as old as ANSI C.

It is hip, because all those years have made its compilers quite good and made it one of most important languages currently in the world for Functional Programming research.

It also has all these companies paying money for using/improving it:

http://industry.haskell.org/partners

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell#readme

You will find a few well known names there.

--
Paulo